Available · Jakarta, Indonesia

Ken Nabila
Setya.

I'm a senior software engineer with eight years shaping backend systems — from marketplace infrastructure at scale to AI agents and education platforms reaching millions of Indonesian teachers and students.

2026 ©
Backend · Distributed Systems
Go · Ruby · GCP
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02 — About

A note from me.

Currently
Senior Software Engineer
at Govtech Edu
Based in
Jakarta, Indonesia
Focus
Backend systems
Distributed services

My career began in Ruby on Rails, and over time I found my home in Go — building the quiet, durable systems that power products at scale.

I've spent eight years in the trenches of API design, database architecture, deployment & monitoring, and large-scale data migrations. I work best on cross-functional Scrum teams where ideas get sharpened by friction. Lately, I've been drawn to the edges where backend meets AI — building agents that actually do useful work.

03 — Highlights

A few things, measured.

0+
Years engineering
Backend, in production
0×
Speed-up shipped
Category query path
0+
Buckets migrated
On-prem → GCS
0
Paper published
CICLing 2018, Hanoi
04 — Experience

Where I've worked.

Aug 2022 — Present
Govtech Edu
Senior Software Engineer

Building the Indonesian Ministry of Education's platform — the systems that schools, teachers, and supervisors actually log into.

  • IKM Registration — curriculum classification system
  • Pengelolaan Kinerja Guru — teacher performance & lesson-plan tracking
  • Chromebook Survey — usage & satisfaction telemetry from schools
  • Pengangkatan KSPS — principal & supervisor selection workflow
  • GTK Ops Agent — an AI agent for resolving GTK Tribe operational issues
Jan 2017 — Jul 2022
Bukalapak
Software Engineer · Product Tribe → Core Tribe

Five and a half years across two tribes — first shipping the marketplace surface millions of buyers & sellers used every day, then dropping a layer down to the load-bearing core services everything else was built on.

Core Tribe
Jan 2019 — Jul 2022

Developed & maintained the core services that serve as the backbone for the Product tribe's initiatives — the unsexy but load-bearing layer.

  • Service & database migration from on-premises infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Responsible for migrating 50+ storage buckets from on-prem to Google Cloud Storage
  • Developed KYC service from the ground up
Product Tribe
Jan 2017 — Jan 2019

Developed & maintained a comprehensive marketplace system, incorporating essential features millions of buyers & sellers used every day.

  • Search: initiated & developed "Lapak (Store) Search" using Elasticsearch
  • Homepage: enhanced category query efficiency by reducing unnecessary calls — an 18× speed improvement with 70% less redundancy
  • Maintained add-to-cart & favorite functionality
05 — Toolkit

What I reach for.

Languages
GoRuby on Rails
Databases
PostgreSQLMySQLRedisMongoDB
Cloud & Infra
Google Cloud PlatformPub/SubBigQueryKubectlDocker
Search & Data
ElasticsearchProtobuf
Tools
GitLabAgile / Scrum
06 — Education & Research

Where I learned.

2013 — 2017
University of Indonesia
Bachelor of Computer Science
3.93
GPA
7
Semesters
◆ Published Research
“Semi-supervised Textual Entailment on Indonesian Wikipedia Data”
Final undergraduate project on machine learning & natural language processing. Presented at the 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics & Intelligent Text Processing (CICLing 2018), Hanoi, Vietnam.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
10.1007/978-3-031-23793-5_34
07 — Languages

Spoken.

Bahasa IndonesiaNative
EnglishProfessional
08 — Get in touch

Let's build
something good.

© 2026 Ken Nabila SetyaJakarta · IndonesiaDesigned & engineered, slowly.